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Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing

Renal Fibrosis

Fibrosis, also referred to as fibrotic scarring, may be a pathological wound healing during which animal tissue replaces normal parenchymal tissue to the extent that it goes unchecked, resulting in considerable tissue remodelling and therefore the formation of permanent connective tissue. Repeated injuries, chronic inflammation and repair are vulnerable to fibrosis where an accidental excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix components, like the collagen is produced by fibroblasts, resulting in the formation of a permanent fibrotic scar. In response to injury, this is often called scarring, and if fibrosis arises from one cell line, this is often called a fibroma. Physiologically, fibrosis acts to deposit animal tissue , which may interfere with or totally inhibit the traditional architecture and performance of the underlying organ or tissue. Fibrosis are often wont to describe the condition of excess deposition of animal tissue , also because the process of animal tissue deposition in healing. Defined by the pathological accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, fibrosis leads to scarring and thickening of the affected tissue, it's in essence an exaggerated wound healing response which interferes with normal organ function. Fibrosis is analogous to the method of scarring, therein both involve stimulated fibroblasts laying down animal tissue , including collagen and glycosaminoglycans. the method is initiated when immune cells like macrophages release soluble factors that stimulate fibroblasts. the foremost well characterized pro-fibrotic mediator is TGF beta, which is released by macrophages also as any damaged tissue between surfaces called interstitium.      

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